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Coco Counts: A Little Chick's First Book of Numbers
Sweet and hip at the same time, this board book featuring Sloane Tanen's adorable chick, Coco, is just the thing to introduce numbers to the very youngest children. Playful rhymes and bright imaginative photographs showcase 1 through 10, reinforcing early concepts in a fun and engaging way for toddlers and providing plenty of laughs for parents, too.
- GenresCountingPicture Books
24 pages, Board Book
First published February 20, 2007
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Sloane Tanen
20Ìýbooks162ÌýfollowersAuthor of nine books including Bitter With Baggage Seeks Same--being re-released by Bloomsbury January, 2019. New novel There's A Word For That, coming from Little, Brown on April, 2019
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February 13, 2012
Coco Counts. What they don't tell you is that Coco is counting how many non sequitur arguments she can throw at a confused audience before they throw this book into the fireplace. Let's just recap on basic logic for a moment here.
Let's determine if the following statement is true:
If p, then q
where p = if one chick is good
and q = two chicks are better
This is easy enough to tackle. Sure. Two chicks are better than one. Three's a crowd, unless it's in the sack. This is a children's book, however, and we're not going there. You can trust the author's judgement to be sound enough to avoid love making between pages one and seven. But by page eight, you have to wonder if the author dropped a hit of acid. "If five chicks are hungry . . . should eight stay awake?" I guess if you're living in a communist dystopia where one's parents must work 12-hour night shifts to earn a crust of bread for their starving children then yes. Yes, eight chicks should stay awake to work for their starving children. Other than that hypothetical context, I have no idea why the hell five chicks being hungry would lead to the necessity of eight chicks staying awake, especially when six are going to bake a damned cake anyway. Wait. Taking that into consideration, even the hypothetical suggestion I present above doesn't make sense. These chicks are going to eat because six others are going to bake a cake. Why, then, must eight stay awake? I guess the correct answer is no. Eight chicks do not have to stay awake. But my brain just keeps shouting "WTF! Does not compute!"
Then it gets even more confusing. Here's the next logic problem: If a bunch of baby chickens play sports, and a bunch more play musical instruments, then when we count to one hundred will it turn the whole world yellow? What. The. $#!T? It's a damned good thing chickens don't play soccer and cellos or we'd live in a very drab world, at least according to the warped logic of the author.
What this story teaches children is that form takes precedence over function in poetics. I'm starting to understand why I see lines reminiscent of "she's my girl/she makes my life a swirl" and "She's the apple of my eye/I should buy her a pie" on Poetry.com and other websites of equal caliber. It's because books like Coco Counts exist.
The pictures are cute though.
Let's determine if the following statement is true:
If p, then q
where p = if one chick is good
and q = two chicks are better
This is easy enough to tackle. Sure. Two chicks are better than one. Three's a crowd, unless it's in the sack. This is a children's book, however, and we're not going there. You can trust the author's judgement to be sound enough to avoid love making between pages one and seven. But by page eight, you have to wonder if the author dropped a hit of acid. "If five chicks are hungry . . . should eight stay awake?" I guess if you're living in a communist dystopia where one's parents must work 12-hour night shifts to earn a crust of bread for their starving children then yes. Yes, eight chicks should stay awake to work for their starving children. Other than that hypothetical context, I have no idea why the hell five chicks being hungry would lead to the necessity of eight chicks staying awake, especially when six are going to bake a damned cake anyway. Wait. Taking that into consideration, even the hypothetical suggestion I present above doesn't make sense. These chicks are going to eat because six others are going to bake a cake. Why, then, must eight stay awake? I guess the correct answer is no. Eight chicks do not have to stay awake. But my brain just keeps shouting "WTF! Does not compute!"
Then it gets even more confusing. Here's the next logic problem: If a bunch of baby chickens play sports, and a bunch more play musical instruments, then when we count to one hundred will it turn the whole world yellow? What. The. $#!T? It's a damned good thing chickens don't play soccer and cellos or we'd live in a very drab world, at least according to the warped logic of the author.
What this story teaches children is that form takes precedence over function in poetics. I'm starting to understand why I see lines reminiscent of "she's my girl/she makes my life a swirl" and "She's the apple of my eye/I should buy her a pie" on Poetry.com and other websites of equal caliber. It's because books like Coco Counts exist.
The pictures are cute though.
September 13, 2012
This book is for really young beginning readers or children just learning to count. There is simple text and bright illustrations. The reader feels like they can touch the fuzziness of the chicks. Each page the number of chick's increases, so it is good for those learning to count. It is also a predictable book because each question starts out "if..chick..and then ends in a question.
January 24, 2008
I gave this to my friend for her baby and she says that she needs to get a new copy because her little one has loved it to death. Cool photos and a fun counting book for the little chick in your life.
March 28, 2013
The chicks are made out of pipe cleaning material & the scenes are comical for the adult as what is used for the eyes changes to express what is going on in the scene. Has a rhythm to the words, not sing-songy though.
August 25, 2009
Even though the rhymes don't all make complete sense, the posed pics with Coco and her friends, the pipe-cleaner chickens, are just so dang cute you gotta love it. My 11-mo-old likes the pictures too.
March 8, 2008
How many chickens does it take to cross this road? Buy this book and see!
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